JP2007140929A - Information providing system, information providing device, and method for providing information - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing system, an information providing device, and a method of providing information capable of access control that takes digital shoplifting and the like into account. <P>SOLUTION: An information terminal device 130 includes a code input part 134b for inputting a code 110 obtained by coding a content identifier; a code decoding part 134a for decoding the content identifier from the code; a position information managing part 133 for storing and managing the position information of the information terminal device; and a content request sending part 131 for sending a content request including the decoded content identifier and the position information. The information providing device 140 for providing content includes a position information determining part 142a for determining whether or not the content can be provided according to the position information included in the content request received; and a content sending part 141 for sending the content stored in a content management part 143, if it is determined that the content can be provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing system, an information providing apparatus, and an information providing method, and more specifically, an information providing system, an information providing apparatus, and an information providing apparatus capable of determining whether or not to provide information based on the position of an information terminal device to which information is provided, And an information providing method.

  Conventionally, a technique for controlling access to content such as a large number of Web pages has been invented. In particular, as a method focusing on position information, a method and a system for performing access control on content that changes with time according to the characteristics of the change have been proposed (for example, see Patent Document 1). Content that is subject to access control is content that changes over time, such as user location information.

  In addition, two-dimensional barcodes have recently become widespread as a technique for facilitating access to contents such as web pages, and techniques for embedding URLs of web pages and contact telephone numbers in two-dimensional barcodes have been proposed (for example, , See Patent Document 2).

  In addition, as a technology for a user to access content using a two-dimensional barcode and perform access control in a server, supply side public information embedded in the two-dimensional barcode and a user device that reads the two-dimensional barcode are preliminarily provided. There has been proposed a system for performing electronic commerce after integrating input personal information and transmitting it to a server and performing personal authentication or the like (see Patent Document 3).

JP 2005-135189 A (paragraphs 0010 to 0012) JP 2005-148776 (paragraphs 0007 to 0008) JP 2004-164665 A (paragraph 0008)

  Two-dimensional barcodes and the like are widely used as a technique for facilitating access to content. Such two-dimensional barcodes are generally printed on books, flyers, posters, and the like (see Patent Document 2). In particular, in the case of books, the user usually purchases the book and obtains information. However, the user can easily obtain the content by reading the two-dimensional barcode printed on the book in the bookstore without purchasing the book. It is possible. In recent years, this is called digital shoplifting and has attracted attention as a problem to be solved.

  Although Patent Document 3 performs access control in a system that assumes content access using a two-dimensional barcode, the access control itself is based on conventional personal information and does not consider the current state of the user.

  The invention of Patent Document 1 is a means for realizing access control focusing on user location information. In this case, the location information is the content itself to be accessed, and does not focus on the status of the accessing user.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to enable access control in consideration of digital shoplifting and the like by determining whether or not to provide information based on position information. A providing system, an information providing apparatus, and an information providing method are provided.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an information providing system including an information terminal device and an information providing device that provides content to the information terminal device. The information terminal device includes: a code input unit that inputs a code in which the content identifier of the content is encoded; a code decoding unit that decodes the content identifier from the input code; and Position information managing means for storing and managing position information, content request transmitting means for transmitting a content request including the decoded content identifier and the position information, and content receiving means for receiving content from the information providing apparatus Content output means for outputting the received content, the information providing device Content management means for storing and managing content; content request receiving means for receiving the content request; position information determination means for determining whether or not to provide the content based on the position information included in the content request; And a content transmission unit that transmits the content stored in the content management unit when the position information determination unit determines that the content can be provided.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the position information according to the first aspect includes a flag indicating whether or not the content can be provided, and the position information determination unit determines whether or not the content can be provided based on the flag. Characteristic features.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the position information according to the first aspect includes latitude and longitude, and the position information determination means provides the content to an information terminal device located in an area including the latitude and longitude. A table for determining availability is provided, and the availability of the content is determined by referring to the table.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the position information according to the first aspect includes a place attribute, and the position information determination means determines whether or not the content can be provided to an information terminal device located at a place corresponding to the place attribute. A table for determining whether or not the content can be provided by referring to the table.

The invention according to claim 5 is an information providing method for providing the information stored in the information providing device to the information terminal device, wherein the information terminal device stores the position information of the information terminal device; Inputting a code in which a content identifier of the content is encoded; decoding the content identifier from the input code; and transmitting a content request including the decoded content identifier and the location information And receiving the content request in the information providing device; determining whether or not to provide the content based on the location information included in the content request; and providing the content by the location information determination means If it is determined that it is possible, the content management 7. The step of transmitting content stored in a stage, the information terminal device including a step of receiving content from the information providing device, and a step of outputting the received content. The present invention is an information providing device that provides content to an information terminal device, wherein the content management means stores and manages the content, the content identifier that identifies the content, and location information of the information terminal device The content request receiving means for receiving the content request including the position information determining means for determining whether or not the content can be provided based on the position information included in the content request, and the position information determining means can provide the content. If it is determined that the content stored in the content management means Characterized in that a content transmission means for transmitting the Ceiling.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an information providing system, an information providing apparatus, and an information providing method capable of performing access control in consideration of digital shoplifting by determining whether or not to provide information based on position information. .

  An embodiment of an information providing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Similar components will be described using similar reference numerals.

[Embodiment 1]
First, the configuration of the information providing system of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information providing system according to the present embodiment.

  The information providing system 100 according to the present embodiment includes a two-dimensional barcode 110, a radio base station 120, an information terminal device 130, and an information providing device 140.

  The radio base station 120 includes a position beacon generator 121 and a communication unit 122.

  The information terminal device 130 includes a communication unit 131, a content input / output unit 132, a location information management unit 133, and a content identifier input unit 134.

  The content identifier input unit 134 includes a two-dimensional barcode decoding unit 134a and a two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b.

  The information providing apparatus 140 includes a communication unit 141, a content provision determination unit 142, and a content management unit 143.

  Further, the content provision determination unit 142 includes a position information determination unit 142a.

  The content management unit 143 includes a content database 143a.

Hereinafter, each component will be described in detail.
The two-dimensional barcode 110 is obtained by encoding information (hereinafter, also referred to as a content identifier) for accessing provided content such as a URL or an address, and can be used for a book, a flyer, a poster, or the like. It is printed. In this specification, the two-dimensional barcode includes a two-dimensional code, a QR code (Quick Response code), and the like. According to the present embodiment, digital shoplifting of content corresponding to a content identifier encoded in a two-dimensional barcode printed on a book can be prevented.

  The position beacon generation unit 121 generates a position beacon representing the characteristics of the place where the radio base station 120 is installed (hereinafter also referred to as position information in this specification), and outputs the position beacon to the communication unit 122. In the present embodiment, the position beacon generation unit 121 indicates, as the simplest example of the position information, whether or not the content is accessible using a content identifier encoded in a two-dimensional barcode printed on the book. Generated as a position beacon including a flag. For example, a radio base station installed in a bookstore sets a flag to prevent digital shoplifting.

  The communication unit 122 periodically broadcasts such position beacons.

  In the information terminal device 130, the two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b reads the two-dimensional barcode 110. For example, the two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b can be a barcode reader or a camera, and the two-dimensional barcode 110 can be photographed using these.

  The two-dimensional barcode decoding unit 134a decodes the two-dimensional barcode 110 read by the two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b and derives a content identifier (that is, a content identifier) requested to the information providing apparatus 140.

  The content identifier input unit 134 outputs the content identifier derived by the two-dimensional barcode decoding unit 134a to the communication unit 131.

  The location information management unit 133 temporarily stores location information included in the location beacon received from the radio base station 120. Thereby, the position information can be used as information indicating the characteristics of the location of the information terminal.

  In addition, when the position information management unit 133 receives a request for position information from the communication unit 131, the position information management unit 133 outputs the position information to the communication unit 131.

  When the communication unit 131 receives a position beacon from the radio base station 120, the communication unit 131 outputs the position beacon to the position information management unit 133.

  In addition, when the communication unit 131 receives the content identifier from the content identifier input unit 134, the communication unit 131 requests the location information management unit 133 for location information.

  Further, when receiving the location information from the location information management unit 133, the communication unit 131 configures a content request together with the content identifier previously received from the content identifier input unit 134 and transmits it to the information providing apparatus 140.

  Furthermore, when the communication unit 131 receives content from the information providing apparatus 140, the communication unit 131 outputs the content to the content input / output unit 132.

  When receiving the content from the communication unit 131, the content input / output unit 132 presents the content to the user.

  In the information providing device 140, when the communication unit 141 receives a content request from the information terminal device 130, the communication unit 141 outputs the content request to the content providing determination unit 142.

  In addition, when receiving the content from the content provision determination unit 142, the communication unit 141 transmits the content to the information terminal device 130.

  When the position information determination unit 142a receives the content request from the communication unit 111, the position information determination unit 142a checks the position information of the information terminal device included in the content request and determines whether the content should be disclosed. In the present embodiment, when the flag as the position information is set, the position information determination unit 142a is in a place where the content cannot be accessed using the content identifier encoded in the two-dimensional barcode printed on the book. It can be determined that there is.

  The content provision determination unit 142 outputs a content acquisition request to the content management unit 143 when the position information determination unit 142a determines that the content may be disclosed.

  In addition, when the content provision determination unit 142 receives content from the content management unit 143, the content provision determination unit 142 outputs the content to the communication unit 141.

  When the content management unit 143 receives the content acquisition request from the content provision determination unit 142, the content management unit 143 searches for the specified content from the content group stored in the content database 143 a, extracts it, and outputs it to the content provision determination unit 142.

  Subsequently, the operation of the information providing system 100 according to the present embodiment will be described.

  First, with reference to FIG. 2, the operation of updating the position information in the position information management unit 132 will be described. The position beacon generator 121 generates a position beacon indicating the characteristics of the place where the radio base station 120 is installed. As described above, in the present embodiment, a flag (that is, position information) indicating whether or not the place where the wireless base station 120 is installed is a place where the content associated with the two-dimensional barcode can be accessed is generated. . Further, the position beacon generation unit 121 outputs a position beacon including the position information generated for the communication unit 122 (S201).

  When receiving the position beacon, the communication unit 122 periodically broadcasts the position beacon (S202).

  When the information terminal device 130 exists in the wireless communication range of the wireless base station 120, the communication unit 131 receives the broadcast position beacon. The communication unit 131 outputs the received position beacon as position information to the position information management unit 132 (S203).

  The location information management unit 132 updates the saved location information based on the location information output by the communication unit 131 (S204).

  Next, with reference to FIG. 3, an operation in which the information terminal device 130 acquires content will be described. The two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b reads the two-dimensional barcode 110 (S301).

  The two-dimensional barcode decoding unit 134a decodes the two-dimensional barcode 110 read by the two-dimensional barcode input unit 134b and acquires a content identifier (S302).

  The two-dimensional barcode decoding unit 134a outputs the acquired content identifier to the communication unit 131 (S303).

  When receiving the content identifier, the communication unit 131 requests location information from the location information management unit 133 (S304).

  When receiving the request for the position information from the communication unit 131, the position information management unit 133 outputs the latest position information to the communication unit 131 (S305).

  When the communication unit 131 receives the position information from the position information management unit 133, the communication unit 131 transmits a content request including the content identifier and the position information to the information providing apparatus 140 (S306).

  In the information providing apparatus 140, the communication unit 141 receives the content identifier and the position information transmitted from the information terminal apparatus 130 (S306).

  When receiving the content request including the content identifier and the position information, the communication unit 141 outputs the content request to the content provision determination unit 142 (S307).

  When the content provision determination unit 142 receives the content request, the content provision determination unit 142 checks the position information (flag) included in the content request and determines whether the information terminal device 130 is in a location where the content may be provided (S308). .

  If it is determined that the information terminal device 130 is in a location where content can be provided, the content provision determination unit 142 outputs a content request to the content management unit 143 based on the content identifier (S310).

  Upon receiving the content request, the content management unit 143 retrieves the designated content from the content database (S311) and outputs it to the content provision determination unit 142 (S312).

  Upon receiving the content, the content provision determination unit 142 outputs the content to the communication unit 141 (S313).

  Upon receiving the content, the communication unit 141 transmits the content to the information terminal device 130 (S314).

  In the information terminal device 130, the communication unit 131 receives the content transmitted by the information providing device 140 (S314). The communication unit 131 outputs the received content to the content input / output unit 132 (S315).

  Upon receiving the content, the content input / output unit 132 presents the received content to the user (S316).

[Embodiment 2]
In the first embodiment, an example in which the position beacon includes a flag indicating whether or not the content can be accessed has been described. However, the position beacon includes a latitude and longitude indicating the position, or a general name such as “bookstore”. Or a location attribute indicated by a unique name such as “AAA Building”. That is, the position information can be expressed by latitude and longitude, or location attributes.

  In such a case, the position information determination unit 142a of FIG. 1 further includes tables as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, and the position information determination unit refers to this table so that the location indicated by the position information is included in the content. It can be configured to determine whether the location is accessible.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of a table for determining whether or not the location indicated by the location information is accessible to the content when the location beacon includes the latitude and longitude indicating the location. Whether to access the information terminal device located in the area defined by the two sets of latitude and longitude is set. For example, if the location indicated by the position information is in the area of latitude 35.39.47.34 to 35.39.56.52 and longitude is 139.44.41.24 to 139.44.35.37, access to the content is denied.

  FIG. 5 is a table for determining whether or not an information terminal device located at a location corresponding to the location attribute indicated by the location information is accessible to the content when the location beacon includes a location attribute. An example of For example, when the place attribute is a bookstore, access to the content is denied.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of a table for determining a location attribute corresponding to the latitude and longitude when the position beacon includes the latitude and longitude indicating the position. Therefore, the table shown in FIG. 6 is used together with the table of FIG. Accordingly, the table of FIG. 5 is further referred to in order to determine whether the location corresponding to the location attribute determined with reference to FIG. 6 is accessible to the content. For example, if the location indicated by the location information is in the area from 35.39.47.34 to 35.39.56.52 and longitude is from 139.44.41.24 to 139.44.35.37, the location indicated by the location information Is determined to have a location attribute of “AAA Building” as a result of referring to the table of FIG. 6, and access to the content is denied as a result of referring to the table of FIG.

[Other Embodiments]
Note that the information terminal device of the present embodiment includes, for example, a mobile phone, a wireless LAN compatible mobile terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a notebook personal computer, a barcode reader, a wireless tag reader, and the like. .

  The wireless base station of this embodiment may be of any type as long as it has a beacon emitting function, and includes, for example, a satellite station, a cell base system base station, a wireless LAN access point, a wireless tag, and the like. .

  Furthermore, as an alternative to the two-dimensional barcode of the present embodiment, any type of information for accessing the content may be used as long as the information is coded, imaged, patterned, or made into a graphic. Includes one-dimensional code, multi-dimensional code, etc. In other words, an alternative to the two-dimensional barcode of the present embodiment is that the content identifier input unit 134 captures, scans, reads, or captures and decodes information for accessing the content included therein. Includes what can be done. Thus, an alternative to a two-dimensional barcode also includes printed text. In this case, the content identifier input unit 134 is configured to capture the printed text, and the two-dimensional barcode decoding unit is configured to convert the text into a corresponding ASCII code.

  In the present embodiment, all the functions of the information providing apparatus are realized on one apparatus, but it is also conceivable that these functions are distributed among a plurality of information providing apparatus groups.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, access control for information associated with a two-dimensional barcode can be performed based on position information, and digital shoplifting or the like can be prevented.

It is a block diagram of one Embodiment of the information provision system concerning this invention. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of updating position information in the position information management unit 132; It is a flowchart for demonstrating the operation | movement which the information terminal device 130 acquires content. It is a figure which shows the example of the table for determining whether the place shown by position information is an accessible place with respect to a content, when a place characteristic beacon contains the latitude and longitude which show a position. It is a figure which shows the example of the table for determining whether the place corresponding to the place attribute shown by position information is an accessible place with respect to a content, when a place characteristic beacon contains a place attribute. It is a figure which shows the example of the table for determining the place attribute corresponding to the said latitude and longitude when a place characteristic beacon contains the latitude and longitude which show a position.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information provision system 110 Two-dimensional barcode 120 Wireless base station 121 Location characteristic beacon generation part 122 Communication part 130 Information terminal apparatus 131 Communication part 132 Content input / output part 133 Location information management part 134 Content identifier input part 134a Two-dimensional barcode decoding Unit 134b two-dimensional barcode input unit 140 information providing device 141 communication unit 142 content provision determining unit 142a position information determining unit 143 content managing unit 143a content database

Claims (6)

An information providing system comprising an information terminal device and an information providing device that provides content to the information terminal device,
The information terminal device
Code input means for inputting a code in which a content identifier of the content is encoded;
Code decoding means for decoding the content identifier from the input code;
Location information management means for storing and managing location information of the information terminal device;
Content request transmission means for transmitting a content request including the decoded content identifier and the position information;
Content receiving means for receiving content from the information providing device;
Content output means for outputting the received content,
The information providing apparatus includes:
Content management means for storing and managing the content;
Content request receiving means for receiving the content request;
Position information determination means for determining whether or not to provide the content based on the position information included in the content request;
An information providing system comprising: content transmitting means for transmitting content stored in the content managing means when the position information determining means determines that the content can be provided. The location information includes a flag indicating whether the content can be provided,
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the position information determination unit determines whether the content can be provided based on the flag. The location information includes latitude and longitude,
The position information determination means includes
A table for determining whether or not to provide the content to an information terminal device located in an area including the latitude and longitude is provided, and whether or not the content can be provided is determined by referring to the table. 1. The information providing system according to 1. The location information includes a location attribute;
The position information determination means includes
A table for determining whether or not to provide the content to an information terminal device located at a location corresponding to the location attribute is provided, and whether or not the content can be provided is determined by referring to the table. 1. The information providing system according to 1. An information providing method for providing content stored in an information providing device to an information terminal device,
In the information terminal device,
Storing location information of the information terminal device;
Inputting a code in which a content identifier of the content is encoded;
Decoding the content identifier from the input code;
Transmitting a content request including the decoded content identifier and the location information;
In the information providing apparatus,
Receiving the content request;
Determining whether the content can be provided based on the location information included in the content request;
A step of transmitting content stored in the content management means when the position information determination means determines that the content can be provided; and
Receiving content from the information providing device;
An information providing system comprising: a step of outputting received content. An information providing device that provides content to an information terminal device,
Content management means for storing and managing the content;
Content request receiving means for receiving a content request including the content identifier for identifying the content and location information of the information terminal device;
Position information determination means for determining whether or not to provide the content based on the position information included in the content request;
An information providing apparatus comprising: content transmission means for transmitting content stored in the content management means when the position information determination means determines that the content can be provided.

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